Image courtesy of Terri Abbott.
Joel Kontinen
The sandy statues made on the shore by Lake Michigan at like it was a different planet. Two nature photographers saw what happened
and posted their images for us all.
Terri Abbott, a nature photographer who lives in
northern Indianawas visiting Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph, Michigan on
Janary 8, when she noticed the stunning shapes on the snowy beach.
Intelligent design was not shown in the sculptures. Their shape “depends on several
factors, including sand-to-water content and wind conditions, said Daniel Bonn,
a physicist and head of the van der Waals-Zeeman Institute at the University of
Amsterdam.”
Source:
Geggel, Laura. 2022. Weird sand 'chess pieces' dot Lake Michigan shore. Here's how they formed. Live Science, 9 January.
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